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Method of wagering

a wagering and card game technology, applied in the field of card games, can solve the problems of increasing the rake rate, putting the casino at a competitive disadvantage, and putting the casino in jeopardy of realizing less revenue per visitor than

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-01-11
COHEN STEVEN H +2
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Benefits of technology

"The invention is a card game where players receive an initial set of cards and can make a wager on whether their cards are the best possible ones to have. The game dealer evaluates if there is a better outcome that could have been achieved with different cards and the player who made the wager wins if there is no better outcome. The game can have multiple winning sets of cards and different pay-offs depending on the number of cards in the initial hand. The technical effect of the invention is to provide an optional wager that is unrelated to the game, which adds an extra element of risk and intrigue to the game."

Problems solved by technology

Increasing the rate of the rake is impractical, as this would put the casino at a competitive disadvantage to other casinos.
With the increasing popularity of such games, casinos are in jeopardy of realizing less revenue per visitor than they have been in the past.
While games played against the house, such as blackjack, allow players to comment upon one another's cards without substantially influencing the underlying strategies in the play of the game, and to enjoy other players' successes, games contemplated by the present invention, such as poker, do not allow for such social interaction.

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example 1

The Nuts, Stone Cold Nuts or the Like

[0015] The Nuts is one embodiment of the present invention as applied to any of the various versions of poker commonly played in casinos. For this example, Texas Hold'em will be used as the poker exemplar.

[0016] Before the initial deal of cards, players are offered the opportunity to place a “Nuts” wager. Players making the wager will place the amount of their wager into a receptacle near their seat to indicate that they have made this wager. The game of Texas Hold'em is then played as usual.

[0017] In Texas Hold'em—both “limit” and “no-limit”—each player is dealt two “hole” cards (face down), and then a round of betting takes place. After this first round of betting, three cards are dealt face up (“the flop”), which are available to all players to make up a standard five-card poker hand. A second round of betting takes place, then another card dealt face up (“the turn”). A third round of betting takes place, and a fifth and final card is dealt...

example 2

Community Nuts or the Like

[0021] Same as in Example 1, but in this embodiment—or variation on the above—the Nuts wager is won only when no cards from the players' hands are necessary to make the unbeatable hand (e.g., four aces and a king are on the table, or a royal flush is on the table). In this case, all players making the Nuts wager win.

example 3

Personal Nuts

[0022] Both Five and Seven Card Stud are forms of poker in which no community cards exist. Each player is dealt an initial set of “hole” cards—cards that only the player can see—and then is dealt a subsequent set of cards to fill out either five or seven cards in total. In this example, the player's wager is won when some subset of the player's hole cards optimize the cards the player is subsequently dealt, without regard to whether the resulting hand is superior to all other players' hands.

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Abstract

An underlying card game is played with an initial wager by a player on the underlying game and an optional wager on a higher-order outcome of the probabilities involved in the underlying game can be made. Specifically, the optional wager involves the likelihood of a player having the optimal initial set of cards given other cards that are ultimately involved in play of the underlying game.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates in general to casino card games. In particular, this invention relates to card games in which players receive an initial set of cards which, when combined with other cards dealt either directly to the player or into a community set of cards, make a complete set of cards, which are in a hierarchical relation to the complete set of all possible cards so dealt. Typically, the player with the set of cards highest in the hierarchy wins the game. [0003] 2. Relevant Background [0004] In a casino setting, card games, poker being the most popular example, are often played against other players, with the casino or “house” taking a small percentage of the total amount wagered. This small percentage, or “rake,” is frequently less on a per-player basis than the house would make were the players playing more traditional casino games, where the players are wagering against the house rather than each o...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63F1/00
CPCA63F3/00643A63F1/00
Inventor COHEN, STEVEN H.SCHWARTZ, ANDREW I.WENTZ, JON R.
Owner COHEN STEVEN H